SMITH ON AN ARCH.lilOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN. 37 



end of each fiscal year the coiumissu.)U shall cause to be made an annual 

 report, the co])y for which, as soon as completed, shall be forwarded to 

 the clerk of the lioard of State Auditors for publication by the State; 

 l)rinter, the cxiK'Use of such publication to be paid from tlu; general 

 fund of the State upon the allowance of the Board of State Auditors. 



Sec. -■>. For the puriJose of carrying out the provisions of this ad, 

 exclusive of the cost of ])ublishin<;' the annual reports, there is hereby 

 api)ropriated from the jit'ueral fund of the State for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1901*, and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of l^.oOO. 



Should the bill pass it will be necessary to secure an arclueologist 

 to direct tlie survey who not only has field expei'ience and will avoid 

 the pitfalls so often fatal to such undertakings, but who also can 

 secure the re-establishment of anthropologic work on the University 

 curriculum. The renewal of the course could be easily secured by 

 otf(n"ing a few lectures the first year. su]»ph^m(^nted the second by 

 laboratorv work on the results of the surxcv. This ithiii wouhl not: 

 only furnish material for the students to study, but would also further 

 the interests of the survey by their pi'eparation of its material. These 

 students could later conduct special pieces of research in the field during 

 the summer nionths and in the laboratory prepare the material and 

 work up the matter for theses. The director should also give populai- 

 lecturers throughout the State in order to develop a respect among the 

 citizens for the subject which has now become a science and to give them 

 instruction in it. 



Should the bill fail to pass it is still significant that the matter should 

 have reached this climax. With the large number of influential and 

 thoughtful ])eople now stri^•ing for this survey as part of a permanent 

 anthropological institution in the State and the increased public in- 

 terest which they have aroused, the subject has now a larger constit- 

 uency in the State than ever before and with or without the survey 

 the whole movement is one in advance. 



[Note.— Tliis paper, with sliulit changes, was published in the American Anthropologist (N. S.), Vo). 

 3, January-March, 1901. The Dill failed to pass but, beginning in the American Anthropologist (N. S.>, 

 Vol. 3, April-June, 1901, the writer has begun a summary of tlie existing knowledge of the archaeology 

 of the State which, had the survey been established, would have been its first task] 



